Judi Taylor Cantor graduated with a Journalism degree from the University of Texas at Austin then was side-tracked from writing into fundraising for many years. She has been the director of development or the director of planned giving for wonderful non profit organizations--KLRU-TV in Austin, The American Museum of Natural History in New York, The Boston Symphony Orchestra, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth. She lives in Portsmouth NH with her husband and has three grown sons and eleven grandchildren.